Elaboration of a Model of Integrated Transport Service in the Segment of Freight Transportation

The transportation system is an independent industry implying carriage of goods from a producer to a consumer using various types of transport. Requirements of owners of business production processes to transportation of freights and goods can be covered by both single and several types of transport, depending on market conditions, technological features of production and level of infrastructure development. In the Russian Federation, a large part of cargo traffic accounts for railway transport, which determines the concept of the development of railway industry based on the principles of consolidation with other subjects of the unitary transportation process and its integration into the international transportation system. The paper is aimed at searching for an alternative way of development and implementation of transport potential of railway industry, both in the country's freight segment and in the international freight transportation area. The authors developed and proposed a model of integrated transport services in all categories of freight traffic based on self-organization. Self-organization coordinates and interconnects investments, profits, potential and target function of Divisions of the integrated transport services. This model allows determining the value of optimal expenditure of funds and investments that are necessary for upgrading an integrated transport service being provided or purchased to the preferred state. The results of using the proposed model bring to the conclusion that solving strategic tasks of Russian economy on ensuring the reliability of unitary transportation and production process, on increase in competitiveness, can be accomplished by using integrated transport service model.